Cybersecurity Contracts in Cumbria

Cybersecurity
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria requiring Cybersecurity skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cybersecurity over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 33 3
Rank change year-on-year -4 -30 +15
Contract jobs citing Cybersecurity 2 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 1.03% 2.70% 26.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.82% 28.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 4
10th Percentile - £479 £490
25th Percentile - £500 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £531 £516
Median % change year-on-year - +2.76% -10.22%
75th Percentile - £580 £594
90th Percentile - £634 £703
North West median daily rate £573 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.44% +3.64% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.95 -
North West median hourly rate £43.00 £35.95 £22.50
% change year-on-year +19.61% +59.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cumbria

Cybersecurity falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 167 248 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 85.64% 95.75% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 146 29
10th Percentile £368 £430 £350
25th Percentile £425 £489 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £522 £463
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% +12.86% -2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £500
90th Percentile £638 £725 £710
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 64 8
10th Percentile £22.72 - £22.61
25th Percentile £25.26 £10.95 £44.81
Median hourly rate £31.76 £13.00 £55.38
Median % change year-on-year +144.31% -76.52% +11.80%
75th Percentile £59.24 £44.74 £66.16
90th Percentile £81.15 £51.91 £83.40
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Cybersecurity
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Cybersecurity as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Cybersecurity in Cumbria

Cybersecurity
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cumbria.

Daily rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cumbria

Cybersecurity
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cybersecurity in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for Cybersecurity in Cumbria

Cybersecurity
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cybersecurity within the Cumbria region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Barrow-in-Furness -8 1 - - 1
Cybersecurity
North West

Cybersecurity
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CISM
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GRC
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
1 1 (50.00%) NIST